Ferenc Kiss
Also Known As: Ференц Кишш
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Székesfehérvár, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Birthday: April 16, 1892
Deathday: August 13, 1972
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Martyrdom of St. John
Overview: Story of a young teacher starting to work in rural Hungary
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-03-24
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Csutak and the Grey Horse
Overview: Csutak is just a pain in the neck, the little boy is even excluded from play by his mates. Vacation is spent lonely until one day he sneaks the woman haulier's old, shabby horse, a creature that would be better off in a slaughterhouse, out with himself. Possessing the animal is the key to the children's gang. They all try to find a place for the horse.
Genres: Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-10-27
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The Five-Forty
Overview: Set in Paris (which looks more like Budapest), the story concerns a murder investigation conducted by one Judge Henri Tessier. The audience is led to believe that Robert Petrovich, estranged husband of Tessier's sweetheart Marion, is responsible for the murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-09-12
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Cafe Moscow
Overview: About a man's disappointment in love, and this provides the foundation for the upcoming trial of a much more significant love. The scene of the fatal meeting, the bar, which is a kind of world-model, and its environment: a fort under siege, from where it's almost impossible to escape...
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1936-02-13
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Twenty Hours
Overview: A crusading newspaper reporter covers the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Initially critical of the communists, the feature later espouses the virtues of the social changes implemented since the invasion. The title refers to the period of time the reporter spent interviewing witnesses to the invasion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-03-11
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Silent Bells
Overview: The bells of the Calvinist church in Garabó have been silent for years, and people prefer to go the Rumanian church. Returning from his studies in Utrecht, Simándy Pál - at his own request - gets a job here, in the alpine village. The young Hungarian minister meets Florica, the educated daughter of Todorescu, the Rumanian pope, whom he knew before. She falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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New Gilgames
Overview: The story recalling the spirit of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king quarrelling with his approaching death, takes place in a cancer hospital in Budapest. Dávid, the young ethnography scientist resigned to his lot and is indifferent to his approaching death. His specialist reckons, however, that such a searching and stubborn mind with thorough knowledge of the nature of his own illness, will be able to fight death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-02
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Rákóczi induló
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1933-11-23
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Elcserélt ember
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1938-03-25
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The Talking Robe
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Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1942-02-21
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Sarajevo
Overview: It is a muster parade in Sarajevo in honour of Ferenc Ferdinánd. Polgár Éva and baron Várnay Miklós, her fiancé and a hussar captain, are preparing together for the event. In the meantime, the woman meets Borisz Boronow, a Russian painter. They fall in love with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1940-09-02
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Man of Gold
Overview: Az Aranyember (The Man of Gold) was based on a novel by Jokai, at one time Hungary's foremost storyteller. Set in the early 19th century, the story revolves around Timar (Ferenc Kiss), a ferryman on a Danish tugboat. Rescuing the daughter (Marisa Kormos) of a Turkish nobleman from a watery grave, Timar is rewarded with the girl's hand in marriage. Now rich beyond his wildest dreams, our hero finds he is unsatisfied; it seems he has never forgotten his true love, flower girl Noemi (Anna Fuzes). Timar is forced to suffer mightily until he is finally permitted a tender reunion with the girl of his dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Légy jó mindhalálig
Overview: The story follows the life of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1936-03-17
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Football of the Good Old Days
Overview: The film is set in Budapest, 1924. Laundryman Ede Minarik's only passion is football. His dream is to see his team, Csabagyöngye, qualify for the first division. For this goal he would be willing to sacrifice everything he has. But he has nothing, even footballers just barely. The team is just like the times. But still, "we need a team!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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Wedding in Toprin
Overview: Sent on a spy mission to the estate of Count Toprini, Lieutenant Imre is helped by the count's wife who is unhappy in her marriage.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-05-03
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Abhorrence
Overview: Nelli, the icy, introverted farm girl, needs to find a husband following her father's death. She accepts the attentions of the noisy Takaró Sanyi, although she is more attracted to his silent and modest younger brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-03-02
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A Bird of Heaven
Overview: Panni, coming from a landless family of ten and Miska have loved each other for a long time. The pretty Panni, however, has another suitor as well: Komáromi, the big farmer. The two men fight from time to time, but then, during the time Miska is serving his military duty, Panni marries Komáromi to end the tremendous squalor of her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-03-20
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Pár lépés a határ
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-11-26
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John, the Hero
Overview: 1938 screen adaptation of the 1904 musical version of the classic Hungarian fairy tale poem by Sándor Petőfi.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-01-26
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Sarajevo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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